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Pope Francis has concluded an annual weeklong prayer for Christian unity by making a sweeping apology for Catholic wrongs committed against other Christians, reports the AP. On Monday, Francis asked forgiveness for the "sin of our divisions"—an appeal he made in June last year during a visit to a small evangelical house of worship in Italy. "I would like to invoke mercy and forgiveness for the non-evangelical behavior of Catholics toward Christians of other churches," he said. "At the same time, I invite all Catholic brothers and sisters to forgive if today, or in the past, they have suffered offense by other Christians ... We cannot cancel what has happened, but we don't want to let the weight of past harm continue to pollute our relations."

Earlier Monday, Francis announced he will visit Sweden, home to about 150,000 Catholics, to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation. The one-day trip Oct. 31 to the southern city of Lund, where the Lutheran World Federation was founded in 1947, will be the first papal visit to Sweden since 1989. The Vatican said the visit will "highlight the important ecumenical developments that have taken place during the past 50 years of dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans" and will include a common worship service. Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic doctrine of indulgences in 1517 is remembered as the start of the Reformation, from which the Protestant churches originated out of criticism of the Church of Rome led by the pope.

There's more the Roman Catholic Church is still hiding behind the cross and it concerns research on human subjects in catholic run Institutions/private hospitals with denominational agreements with the BC, Canada Government with no free prior informed consent ( rule of law ) (rule 45 ) which I and others can attest were subjected to and I have documents to back up all allegation and yes I was brought up Roman Catholic (RC) and that's why it's hard to go there. What we have in BC is an intergraded system, a system within a system with research sneaked in and presented as a Standard of Care hidden in the Public system and from the patients. Below is one of them: EORTC 10994/BIG 00-0 - is a world-renowned breast cancer clinical trial which includes Canadian women, Canadian Researchers and the study involves personalized onco-genomics which just got publically worldwide retracted - it involved possible fraud and misconduct by many players in the field of cancer research. The United States posted it world-wide. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-11-09/pdf/2015-28437.pdf The BC Cancer Foundation gave; $166,676 and the (DOD ) US Department of Defence granted for the research http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a543747.pdf - ( click on the author information ) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326568/ ( all patients were enrolled in the EORTC 10994/BIG 00-01 clinical trial - quoted in study above - Table 1 ) also above table 1 the Principal Investigator argues " However, our analysis is based on original data obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus website (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo; accession number GSE6861) and is therefore not affected by this issue" update - the issue is now affected, the data sets used in the above research is retracted - https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-11-09/pdf/2015-28437.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18024211 another grant for the above research http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a543747.pdf must watch ( researchers claiming they found the Holy Grail.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5sZTNPMQRM this is important to watch - explains everything - 1 of the 2 researchers who did not believe the garbage research -hero's in my eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrm8iEMQZNw I believe the there's a race for patent's with Docetaxel (XT) also called Taxotere ( TXT ) because the original patent expired in Canada in 2007 but in other countries and US the owners of the patent were allowed an extension to 2013 making it feasible for the DOD to jump the border into Canada and who would believe our government let the DOD research on Canadian cancer patients without their consent. https://www.genericsweb.com/index.php?object_id=921 K

GodSAveAmerica

Jan 29, 2016 5:58 AM CST

Hey Pope? So you gonna visit Sweden huh? Okay you talk about unity? Then walk down the parts of Sweden that are controlled by Sharia Law; we all wanna know what happened..

ts

Jan 26, 2016 11:35 PM CST

WOW. This is wonderful and impressive, and it's about time. Halleluia. Loving both Catholics and Protestants, it (the division) has always made me sad.